How to use edu 2.0 in your classroom

In Edu 2.0, you can use many Web 2.0 applications, including wikis, blogs, forums, debates, chats, and feeds. There are many other applications as well, but we may as well just focus on using the ones most pertinent to us.

The steps below are as follows:

1. Register with the site (only once EVER)
2. Set up a class (only once per class)
3. Get students to sign up for the class (only once per class)
4. Get started using Web 2.0 applications!

• Wikis
• Blogs
• Forums

How to get started:

1. First you must register with the site by creating your profile as follows (you only have to do this once):
Go to: http://www.edu20.org/home

1. Click on the “sign up free” button
   1. Make your user name something like “MrWebb” or your username when you sign into your computer
   2. I would suggest using the same password that you use when you sign into your computer so you don’t forget it –or– write it down somewhere
2. From here, you can change your profile, picture, etc. but it’s not vitally important

2. Now you can set up a class that you teach (you only need to do this once for each class):

1. From your “Home” page in edu20, click on the yellow tab above that says “Teach”
2. Click on the “Add class” button toward the bottom of the page
3. Fill in the information for your class as asked. Some points to remember:
   1. Make the access Private so that students need a password to join your class
   2. Start/Finish dates are not THAT important, just get them roughly correct
   3. You can turn features on/off later if you want to, but I would suggest turning having the following setup:
   4. Put the trimester number in the “Semester”, skip the “Course Code”, and put in the period number for “Section code”
   5. Click “Save”

3. Now you need some students to sign up for your class (again, only once for each class):

1. At the end of this document is a paragraph that you can give to your students to sign up for your class in order to participate in the Web 2.0 applications you plan to use in your edu20 class site.
   1. I highlighted the parts that you will have to change in respect to your own class
2. You could get this done by:
   1. Bringing the students down to the computer and showing them how to do it while they do it along with you
   2. Giving the paragraph to the students to do for homework
   3. Bringing a CFF cart to your classroom and showing the students how to do it

4. Now you can incorporate Web 2.0 stuff into your class using edu20.org:

Wikis

What is a wiki? Go here
How to set one up on your site:

1. Log into edu20.org
2. Click on the yellow “Teach” tab
3. Click on the class you would like to put a wiki in
4. Move your mouse over the grey “collaboration” tab
5. Click on the “wiki” tab that appears below collaboration
6. Click on the “Add wiki page” button toward the bottom of the page
7. Type in the title of the wiki and a little bit (or a lot) of content (Ideas for wikis are down below)
8. Click “Save”

Want to change the wiki? Just open it up, click “edit”, make your changes, and click “save”. Now all of your students can change the wiki whenever they want. The editions to the wiki are kept track of. Therefore, if you want to find out who made what changes, you can just look at the earlier versions of the wiki. You can see many of the wikis that I and my students have made on my Science & Sustainability website by going to http://edu20.org/class/enroll/55383 and enrolling in the class. (You will be enrolled as a “learner”, therefore, to get to the class, click on the yellow “Learn” tab, instead of Teach in order to get to the class.)

How do I incorporate wikis into my teaching? Go to the PV CFF wikispace page for web 2.0 for a list that you can add to

Blogs

What is a blog? Go here

1. To start a blog that anyone with an edu 2.0 account can see,

• Log in or go to your edu 2.0 home page
• Click on the grey “blog” tag
• To post a blog entry, click “Post a message”
• Now students can comment on your post if you’d like – don’t worry…each comment must be approved by you before it’s posted.
• To read the comments, you must click on “comments"

2. To start a blog that only the students enrolled in your class will be able to see and leave comments,

• Log in or go to your edu 2.0 home page
• Click on the yellow “Teach” tab
• Click on the class that you’re teaching
• Go to the grey “collaboration” tab, and click on the grey “blogs” tag
• Click on “Visit your class blog”
• To post a blog entry, click “Post a message”
• Now students can comment on your post if you’d like – don’t worry…each comment must be approved by you before it’s posted.
• To read the comments, you must click on “comments”

How do I incorporate blogs into my teaching? Go to the PV CFF wikispace page for web 2.0 for a list that you can add to

Forums

What is a forum? A teacher or a student can post a message about something (maybe about how they like ethanol as a gas alternative). Then the teacher or other students can respond to that post with their own opinion. Or a teacher can post a question everyone should respond to. Or………whatever!
You can see one of the forums that I and my students have made on my Science & Sustainability website by going to http://edu20.org/class/enroll/55383 and enrolling in the class, if you haven't already. (You will be enrolled as a “learner”, therefore, to get to the class, click on the yellow “Learn” tab, instead of Teach in order to get to the class.)

To create a forum,

1. Log into edu20.org
2. Click on the yellow “Teach” tab
3. Click on the class you would like to put a forum in
4. Click “Add Forum”
5. Type in the subject and what you want the students to post about
6. Click “Submit”
7. Now let the students do their posting and you can read what they have to say

You can even “subscribe” to a post, meaning that you’ll get an email every time something new is posted there.

How do I incorporate forums into my teaching? Go to the PV CFF wikispace page for web 2.0 for a list that you can add to

Instructions for groups, debates, chats, and feeds coming soon.

The worksheet I use to get students signed up for edu2.0:

Edu 2.0

Edu 2.0 is a website that incorporates a lot of Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs, discussion boards, etc.) We will use this frequently to collaborate with lab partners, write current events, discuss each other’s ideas, etc. In order to use this site, you must a) register, b) enroll in the class. Follow the directions below to accomplish this task.

1. Go to: http://www.edu20.org/home
2. Click on the “sign up free” button and register for the site
3. Write down your information here and keep this paper in a safe spot where you will not lose it

USERNAME:_ PASSWORD:_

1. Once you are registered for the site go to: http://www.edu20.org/class/enroll/80764 and click “enroll”
2. The password to enroll in the class is “bravesphysics”

Now you can explore the site and get used to it. For explanations of Wikis, Blogs, etc. “in plain English,” go to www.teachertube.com and search for in plain english.